US Patent Issued to RTX on March 25 for "Hybrid electric single engine descent energy management" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,141, issued on March 25, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Hybrid electric single engine descent energy management" was invented by Martin Richard Amari (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Zubair Ahmed Baig (South Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of a hybrid aircraft includes a first gas turbine engine, a second gas turbine engine, a power source, and a controller. The first gas turbine engine includes a first electric machine. The second gas turbine engine includes a second electric machine. The controller is operable to determine an operating condition of the first gas turbine engine and the second gas tur...